Smile Arc Protection: A Crucial Key to a Lifelong Beautiful Smile
Everyone is born with the potential to have a beautiful smile. There are a lot of things that go into keeping your smile beautiful for your whole life. Good brushing and flossing habits, avoiding foods and drinks that stain teeth, and attending regular dental visits are just a few things, but they aren’t the only things that give you a beautiful smile. The arc of your teeth matter too.
The Smile Arc
Never heard of a smile arc before? Not to worry, it’s pretty simple. Your smile arc refers to how the biting edge of the upper teeth are positioned in relation to your lower lip. Ideally, this edge of your teeth will flow along with the curve of your lower lip when you smile. This creates a truly aesthetically pleasing smile, as opposed to one where the edge of the teeth are flat in comparison.
Smile Arc Protection
Because the smile arc is a crucial key in the most aesthetically beautiful smiles, Maccaro Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry practices smile arc protection. More traditional orthodontic practices will give you straight teeth, but not always the most beautiful smile. Smile arc protection preserves the natural curvature of the teeth or to create a beautiful arc if there isn’t one, whichever makes more sense for your smile. This is accomplished by placing the braces brackets closer to the gum-line, rather than in the center of the tooth.
A Lifelong Beautiful Smile
As you age, less of your upper teeth show when you smile. Whether you realize it or not when you’re looking at other peoples’ smiles, that can be an indicator of aging. If you want your smile to look youthful for as long as possible, orthodontia that utilizes smile arc protection is necessary. Smile arc protection addresses that by positioning the teeth so that more of the upper teeth show when you smile. With more teeth showing and the line of your lower lip matching the line of the edge of your teeth, smile arc protection provides you with a smile that is sure to be beautiful for decades to come (provided you take good care of it, of course).
Maccaro Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry knows that the arc of your teeth impacts the beauty of your smile. Braces are meant to help you achieve your smile’s true beauty by putting them in their optimal alignment. That’s why Maccaro Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry works to preserve your smile arc: so you can enjoy a beautiful smile your whole life long.
Maccaro Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry does more than just align your teeth. Check out our other services here to see how we can help you keep your teeth healthy and beautiful.
